Managing Consultant / Senior Manager - Cloud Programme Manager

Capgemini Invent; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Capgemini Invent is seeking a Cloud Programme Manager to lead complex cloud and infrastructure transformation programmes for enterprise clients across AWS, Azure and GCP. The role spans strategy, business case, delivery and benefits realisation, with a focus on AI-enabled delivery and cross-functional leadership.

You will guide governance, stakeholder engagement and partner ecosystems, driving measurable business outcomes and client value through innovative cloud solutions and robust programme

Qualifications

• Experience leading medium-to-large cloud/infrastructure programmes, ideally in a consulting or client-facing environment.
• Delivery of cloud migrations and modernisation across AWS, Azure or GCP; familiarity with DevOps, FinOps, platform engineering and SRE is desirable.
• Strong governance capability – business case, roadmap, RAID, dependency management, executive reporting, and scope/commercial management.
• Experience with AI or data workloads, and/or using AI tools to accelerate programme delivery, is highly desirable.

Responsibilities

• Lead multi-workstream cloud and infrastructure transformation programmes across AWS, Azure and GCP environments.
• Own the governance backbone of the programme – business case, roadmap, RAID, dependency management, scope and SOW management, and executive reporting.

Skills

Cloud programme management

Stakeholder management

Cloud migrations

AWS

Azure

GCP

Governance

AI delivery

Team leadership

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

Job description

Capgemini Invent

At Capgemini Invent, we believe difference drives change. As inventive transformation consultants, we blend our strategic, creative and scientific capabilities, collaborating closely with clients to deliver cutting-edge solutions. Join us to drive transformation tailored to our client's challenges of today and tomorrow. Informed and validated by science and data. Superpowered by creativity and design. All underpinned by technology created with purpose.

Capgemini Invent

At Capgemini Invent, we believe difference drives change. As inventive transformation consultants, we blend our strategic, creative and scientific capabilities, collaborating closely with clients to deliver cutting-edge solutions. Join us to drive transformation tailored to our client's challenges of today and tomorrow. Informed and validated by science and data. Superpowered by creativity and design. All underpinned by technology created with purpose.

Your Role

As a Cloud Programme Manager at Capgemini Invent, you will lead complex cloud and infrastructure transformation programmes for enterprise clients – from strategy and business case through to delivery and benefits realisation.

In this role you will play a key role in:

Programme leadership:

Leading multi-workstream cloud and infrastructure transformation programmes – including cloud migrations, data centre exits and transformations, landing zone builds and platform modernisation – across AWS, Azure and GCP environments.

Programme governance:

Owning the governance backbone of the programme – business case, roadmap, RAID, dependency management, scope and SOW management, and executive reporting – and keeping delivery anchored to business outcomes.

Value and benefits realisation:

Defining, tracking and evidencing programme benefits, working with client finance and business stakeholders to translate complex technical change into measurable business value.

Team and ecosystem leadership:

Leading and coaching cross-functional teams across client, Capgemini, hyperscaler and third-party vendor organisations, and managing supplier relationships.

AI-enabled delivery:

Applying AI and GenAI tooling to accelerate programme delivery, and leading programmes that increasingly include AI and data workload migration and modernisation.

Key Expectations From This Role Include

As a Managing Consultant: lead a major workstream or a mid-sized programme end-to-end, own day-to-day client relationships and produce high-quality deliverables.

As a Senior Manager: lead large, complex programmes, own senior client relationships, and shape and sell follow-on work.

Role

As part of your role you will also have the opportunity to contribute to the business and your own personal growth, through activities that form part of the following categories:

• Business Development – Leading/contributing to proposals, RFPs, bids, proposition development, client pitch contribution, client hosting at events.
• Internal Contribution – Campaign development, internal think-tanks, whitepapers, practice development (operations, recruitment, team events & activities), offering development.
• Learning & Development – Training to support your career development and the skills demand within the company, certifications etc.

Your Profile

You're passionate about helping organisations transform through technology and thrive in a fast-paced environment and matrixed organisation. We're looking for individuals with experience in some of the following areas:

• Leading or managing medium-to-large cloud and infrastructure programmes (e.g. cloud transformations, data centre exits, infrastructure modernisation), ideally in a consulting or client-facing environment.
• Delivering cloud migration and modernisation with at least one of AWS, Azure or GCP; familiarity with DevOps, FinOps, platform engineering and SRE is desirable.
• Strong programme governance capability – business case, roadmap, RAID, dependency management, executive reporting, and scope/commercial management.
• Stakeholder management across senior executives, finance, procurement, engineering, security and operations, with the ability to enlist support and commitment from peers in a matrixed organisation.
• Experience of programmes involving AI or data workloads, and/or using AI tools to accelerate programme delivery, is highly desirable.
• Certifications in one or more of MSP, PMP, SAFe, PRINCE2 or Scrum are nice; hyperscaler certifications are desirable.

What You'll Love About Working Here

No matter the project or customer, your work will have a meaningful impact on society, businesses and lives. It’s really rewarding. And it’s also really varied. You’ll potentially work on a huge variety of projects (some larger than others), so you could gain lots of experience in a short amount of time.

Client engagements give you the opportunity to work with our leadership and experienced consulting management, where you can learn from them, challenge them and accelerate your hands‑on experience, delivery capability and industry insights. There are many opportunities like monthly team drinks to connect face‑to‑face with the wider team over a few drinks in the city. There are regular leadership connect sessions that will give you a different, more relaxed setting to meet up in the office to hear from the leadership, meet colleagues and discuss the trends and insights within the market. Team days are always a chance to connect with the team, have fun and learn something new.

We are delighted to have received the “Glassdoor Best Places to work UK’ accolade for 4 consecutive years, to see what it’s like to work at Capgemini Invent, visit our Glassdoor page

Need To Know

At Capgemini we don’t just believe in Diversity & Inclusion, we actively go out to making it a working reality. Driven by our core values and Active Inclusion Campaign, we build environments where you can bring you whole self to work.

• We aim to build an environment where employees can enjoy a positive work-life balance.
• We embed hybrid working in all that we do and make flexible working arrangements the day‑to‑day reality for our people.
• All UK employees are eligible to request flexible working arrangements.

Employee wellbeing is vitally important to us as an organisation. We see a healthy and happy workforce a critical component for us to achieve our organisational ambitions.

• To help support wellbeing we have trained ‘Mental Health Champions’ across each of our business areas.
• We have also invested in wellbeing apps such as Thrive and Peppy.

• We offer a remuneration package which includes flexible benefits options for you to choose to suit your own personal circumstances and a variable element dependent grade and on company and personal performance.

About Capgemini

Capgemini is a global business and technology transformation partner, helping organizations to accelerate their dual transition to a digital and sustainable world, while creating tangible impact for enterprises and society. It is a responsible and diverse group of 350,000 team members in more than 50 countries. With its strong over 55-year heritage, Capgemini is trusted by its clients to unlock the value of technology to address the entire breadth of their business needs. It delivers end-to-end services and solutions leveraging strengths from strategy and design to engineering, all fueled by its market leading capabilities in AI, cloud and data, combined with its deep industry expertise and partner ecosystem. The Group reported 2024 global revenues of €22.1 billion